Project TribesThe knowledge found in project teams can be invaluable, but it isn’t always shared or understood by those outside "the tribe.” Technologies, processes and mindsets are evolving to create a new era of collaboration. By following key principles, tribal knowledge can be turned into organizational power.
Be the Change Are you being slighted by project team members and stakeholders? Are your ideas ignored or credited to others? Don’t waste any more time and energy complaining — take these three steps to turn the situation around, elevate your role, and become an influencer in your workplace.
Weigh the Work AheadHow can your team accurately predict and communicate meaningful delivery timelines when it is constantly fielding changes from the multiple business units it serves? Here is a detailed look at how one Scrum-centered team used a four-step approach to estimate timelines for work far into the future.
Sometimes we don’t recognize when we are in the presence of a good leader until after we have moved on. We judge differences in personality and style too quickly, reflect on their potential value too slowly, and lose out on opportunities to grow as leaders ourselves.
The best way to improve project outcomes is to improve requirements analysis. But as programs grow increasingly complex, organizations must go beyond methodologies to develop and broaden the capabilities of their requirements analysts, starting with these 10 skills.
Just as agile teams strive to continuously improve, they should also continuously seek opportunities to reduce wasteful activities. A good start is creating visual representations of a team’s total wasted time over the course of several sprints as well as its time invested in improvements.
Lean Startup principles provide a foundation for organizations to marry Agile software delivery with business innovation. But it requires project managers to think in terms of ‘flow’ and see their projects as systems in concert with a fresh approach to application lifecycle management. Here’s an overview of how it works.
Approving a project is like writing a check: you’re committing your organization’s resources to completing activities. But often the process fails to recognize that the most critical resource — people — is overdrawn. Here is a simple first step to better estimate the human cost component of your project.
Government organizations are risking $148 million for every $1 billion spent on programs due to ineffective program management, according to a Project Management Institute study presented to the Government Efficiency Caucus this month.
By embracing fast and frequent project failure rates, organizations can become more efficient more quickly, according to a new report from research analyst Gartner. At the same time, portfolio managers should institute 'stop-loss' criteria to determine when to accept failure and bring a project to an end.
A new benchmark study on project portfolio management identifies best practices, future trends and areas of improvement, while establishing a link between PPM capability and return on investment.
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